Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns...
...After a few months a new character was needed and Mrs. Hoople's husband, who "had been gone for nigh on ten years," suddenly appeared. At first Hoople was a grotesque, sawed-off figure not much taller than his little Nephew Alvin. Gradually Hoople grew into a genial, full-sized, bulbous braggart, dominated "Our Boarding House." N. E. A. boosted the cartoon's distribution until it now ranks among the first ten comics...
Summary of Concentrators comments on men in the German Department: Walz, Howe, Lieder, Cawley older men in the department who are authorities in their field but tend to be rather uninspiring to undergraduates as lecturers. Starck--clear lecturer, con- genial. Heffner--stimulating, gives the literary angle. Nolte--good tutor (especially for divisional), knows his literature, material somewhat disorganized in German 6. Herrick--stimulating personality. Hawkes--progressive, interesting, good in composition courses. Cross--brilliant and interesting, the power of the Department. Vietor--good lecturer. Shelley--good younger tutor
Marshall Field shoppers recognized William Burnell Towsley as the genial first-floor manager of the Wabash building where he directs customers to leather goods, stationery and jewelry. Founder Towsley is one of the Choral Society's seven charter members. With him from the start have been four other bassos: Charles Hanneman,a salesman in the "Store for Men" Edward Katschke in the candy stock room; Monroe A. Munson, retired this year from the rug department ; Howard E. Snyder, too old now for the shipping room. Two charter sopranos have kept pace with the oldtime bassos. Sarah J. Grimes still...
Blue-eyed, genial William Johnson is the first native Chicagoan to become superintendent since the post was created in 1854. Son of a Danish grocer, he swept high-school classrooms, did odd jobs, saved enough money to go to Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...